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    The Big Trip Up Yonder
    The Big Trip Up Yonder
    The Big Trip Up Yonder
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    The Big Trip Up Yonder

    By Sanford Kossin and Kurt Vonnegut

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      The Big Trip Up Yonder - Sanford Kossin

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Big Trip Up Yonder, by Kurt Vonnegut

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      Title: The Big Trip Up Yonder

      Author: Kurt Vonnegut

      Illustrator: Kossin

      Release Date: October 13, 2009 [EBook #30240]

      Language: English

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      THE BIG TRIP

      UP YONDER

      By KURT VONNEGUT, JR.

      Illustrated by KOSSIN

      If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it ... it is much too good for anyone else!

      Gramps Ford, his chin resting on his hands, his hands on the crook of his cane, was staring irascibly at the five-foot television screen that dominated the room. On the screen, a news commentator was summarizing the day's happenings. Every thirty seconds or so, Gramps would jab the floor with his cane-tip and shout, Hell, we did that a hundred years ago!

      Emerald and Lou, coming in from the balcony, where they had been seeking that 2185 A.D. rarity—privacy—were obliged to take seats in the back row, behind Lou's father and mother, brother and sister-in-law, son and daughter-in-law, grandson and wife, granddaughter and husband, great-grandson and wife, nephew and wife, grandnephew and wife, great-grandniece and husband, great-grandnephew and wife—and, of course, Gramps, who was in front of everybody. All save Gramps, who was somewhat withered and bent, seemed, by pre-anti-gerasone standards, to be about the same age—somewhere in their late twenties or early thirties. Gramps looked older because he had already reached 70 when anti-gerasone was invented. He had not aged in the 102 years since.

      Meanwhile, the commentator was saying, "Council Bluffs, Iowa, was still threatened by stark tragedy. But 200 weary rescue workers have refused to give up hope,

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